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College 1 – 8 februari 2021
Lectures first half will be a bout core characteristics
After this, we will have the midterm-exam
The second half will focus on the future of work
10 lectures in total (8 on Tuesday and 2 on Monday, only the first 2 weeks)
8 workshops in total
The Q&A
Consist of 3 parts
- Answer the questions on Blackboard
- Provide one interesting question of your own
- Provide a preliminary answer this question
- You will be marked with a pass when you put enough effort in it
- If you finished all 8 Q&A’s you will get a bonus of 0.3
The Portfolio
- Deadline 16 april 12:00
- Two-three pages per week
- Two rounds of feedback
- Practising for a company in a consultancy way
- Show what you learned in the course
Question about the literature → ask them in the workshop
questions
Why do we study sociology of organisations?
Work is most important in peoples life (look at the time per day)
Why sociology?
Understanding behaviour in context
What other people and the organisation doing around one employer
Different perspectives
What are the other people doing and how does this influence the employee?
,6 strands
Each strand look at different aspects of organisations
Methodological pluralism = using different strands at the same time
How you look to the world, influences what you see. We put on different glasses when
watching organisations and the society as whole.
Psychology – focusses on the individual
Sociology – focusses on social processes around the individual
The first few strands will be more on the left
We use the Coleman boat too understand how macro-level situations are related to each
other.
,1 Managerial-psychologistic strand (left strand, psychology)
Scientific management
Efficiency was the goal in this time. The best way to work more efficient is to specialise and
decompose tasks → Het is makkelijker voor 5 mensen om samen 5 tafels te maken dan
ieder apart
In this, we have ‘Do-ers’ and ‘Thinkers’ (managers). The manager tell what to do and the
do-ers do it
People like to don’t think about everything. The managers tell the employers what to do and
we get paid for that. We think it’s pleasant when others tell us what to do.
If we can earn more money in a working day, we will work harder for it.
Managers proberen alles beter te begrijpen. Ze analyseren het werk heel erg. Bijvoorbeeld
met de klok meten van taken en kijken hoelang ze er over deden. Ze stelde de vraag: ‘’Wat
is de beste manier om mensen zo efficiënt mogelijk te laten werken?’’.
, Scientific management
Measure things to understand society better
Factory work, with a lot of process working
Decompose the work in different parts
A lot of people
Engineers waren diegene die probeerde om mensen net als machines te laten werken. Ze
gebruikte alle mensen en tools om zo efficiënt mogelijk te werken. Er wordt geprobeerd om
in een zo kort mogelijk tijd zoveel mogelijk te produceren.
In many places of the world, this way of working still exists
Zoveel mogelijk in een korte tijd produceren.
Fordism
Taylorism was being built further by Ford, named Fordism
College 1 – 8 februari 2021
Lectures first half will be a bout core characteristics
After this, we will have the midterm-exam
The second half will focus on the future of work
10 lectures in total (8 on Tuesday and 2 on Monday, only the first 2 weeks)
8 workshops in total
The Q&A
Consist of 3 parts
- Answer the questions on Blackboard
- Provide one interesting question of your own
- Provide a preliminary answer this question
- You will be marked with a pass when you put enough effort in it
- If you finished all 8 Q&A’s you will get a bonus of 0.3
The Portfolio
- Deadline 16 april 12:00
- Two-three pages per week
- Two rounds of feedback
- Practising for a company in a consultancy way
- Show what you learned in the course
Question about the literature → ask them in the workshop
questions
Why do we study sociology of organisations?
Work is most important in peoples life (look at the time per day)
Why sociology?
Understanding behaviour in context
What other people and the organisation doing around one employer
Different perspectives
What are the other people doing and how does this influence the employee?
,6 strands
Each strand look at different aspects of organisations
Methodological pluralism = using different strands at the same time
How you look to the world, influences what you see. We put on different glasses when
watching organisations and the society as whole.
Psychology – focusses on the individual
Sociology – focusses on social processes around the individual
The first few strands will be more on the left
We use the Coleman boat too understand how macro-level situations are related to each
other.
,1 Managerial-psychologistic strand (left strand, psychology)
Scientific management
Efficiency was the goal in this time. The best way to work more efficient is to specialise and
decompose tasks → Het is makkelijker voor 5 mensen om samen 5 tafels te maken dan
ieder apart
In this, we have ‘Do-ers’ and ‘Thinkers’ (managers). The manager tell what to do and the
do-ers do it
People like to don’t think about everything. The managers tell the employers what to do and
we get paid for that. We think it’s pleasant when others tell us what to do.
If we can earn more money in a working day, we will work harder for it.
Managers proberen alles beter te begrijpen. Ze analyseren het werk heel erg. Bijvoorbeeld
met de klok meten van taken en kijken hoelang ze er over deden. Ze stelde de vraag: ‘’Wat
is de beste manier om mensen zo efficiënt mogelijk te laten werken?’’.
, Scientific management
Measure things to understand society better
Factory work, with a lot of process working
Decompose the work in different parts
A lot of people
Engineers waren diegene die probeerde om mensen net als machines te laten werken. Ze
gebruikte alle mensen en tools om zo efficiënt mogelijk te werken. Er wordt geprobeerd om
in een zo kort mogelijk tijd zoveel mogelijk te produceren.
In many places of the world, this way of working still exists
Zoveel mogelijk in een korte tijd produceren.
Fordism
Taylorism was being built further by Ford, named Fordism
